Thursday, 26 June 2014

Book Review: Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Disclaimer: I have received this book as a
free review sample, with the only requirement that I would write a review of it
here on my blog. The reviews published here are my own views and I was in no
way obligated to write positive reviews

The book basically covers installation and configuration
steps for setting up VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager as well as VMware
vSphere Replication along with deep insights into effective DR management.

This Chapter looks into the steps for installing and
configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager within your own datacenter. It
provides few good design implementations along the way as well; providing pros
and cons for the same.

Chapter 2: Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans

Once the basic groundwork is laid in for SRM, the next
logical step is to enable protection of the virtual machine workloads. This chapter
describes the steps for creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans.

Chapter 3: Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback

Perhaps the most important part of this book, this chapter
outlines some of the key steps an administrator must take to ensure that the
Recovery Plans and failback mechanisms are in place and functional in case of an actual emergency.

Chapter 4: Deploying vSphere Replication 5.5

vSphere Replication has been VMware’s answer to a cost
effective DR solution for Enterprises that don’t want to invest heavily into
complex storage replication technologies and so far, it hasn’t disappointed at
all. The Chapter walks through simple, usable steps that a Datacenter
administrator must take to install and configure vSphere Replication using either
the bundled software or the ready to use appliance.

Chapter 5: Configuring and Using vSphere Replication 5.5

This chapter describes how replication actually takes place
with vSphere Replication and which configuration tasks are involved with the
replication of a virtual machine.

Summary

Easy to use guide for installing and configuring VMware SRM and vSphere Replication..

Good design considerations provided [could have provided a bit more.. but still fair enough.. :) ]